7 Amendments of Theodoros SKYLAKAKIS related to 2011/2096(INI)
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recalls that, particularly in Member States with a large surface area, distances may be very long and population sparse; calls on the Commission, in the European transport system, also to take account of the transport needs of peripheral and sparsely populated regions;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that the internalisation of costs is necessary in order to promote competition in the transport sector, which shall not be hampered by environmentally harmful subsidies;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Commission to help the Member States to further and in detail calculate the economic, environmental and health costs associated with this strategy, so as to facilitate in the best possible way, the internalisation of the external costs;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Commission to address the local transport monopolies which have evolved in the Member States and which create relevant discontinuities and distortions; notes therefore the need for an anti-monopoly policy especially for the transport sector;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recommends that the Commission continue to support and, if appropriate, initiate with Member States campaigns to create awareness of environmentally friendly transport alternatives, better known as the concept of active travel, i.e. walking and cycling, especially in sensitive urban areas where air quality and noise are a threat to human health, and therefore recommends that the Commission brings about a Master Plan on Walking and Cycling;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Notes that the success of the targets we set in reducing CO2 emissions depend on the technological developments, thus we need to invest on Research & Development in order to bridge the existing gap between the cost-efficient targets and the investments on new technologies, which would make these targets feasible;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission to put additional effort into co-ordinating the up-to-now fragmented actions and initiatives undertaken by the local authorities in urban mobility and to facilitate policy transfers between cities;